Monday, October 01, 2012

iPhone 5 shows an Apple first: custom CPU core design

Independent discovery of vulnerabilities will improve Android security overall | Leaked video shows Qwerty, touchscreen RIM BlackBerry 10s

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iPhone 5 shows an Apple first: custom CPU core design
More details of the iPhone 5 CPU emerged this week, confirming Apple's claimed performance gains. But more importantly, they are the first indications of the impact of Apple's custom chip design, rather than relying on standardized cores licensed from ARM. Read More


WEBCAST: VMware

10 Reasons to Modernize the Desktop
his paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users' needs, and ready for new and future technology. Read Now!

WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Expert Advice to Mitigate BYOD Risks
Long derided as an overhyped concept, network access control (NAC) has emerged as an important solution for mitigating the risks of consumerization. Network and security managers will need NAC to retain control of the network in a "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment. Read now.

Independent discovery of vulnerabilities will improve Android security overall
Android's openness gives its community and the market influence in the prioritization of Android's improvement. Android product managers must have a challenging job, because so many other developers, users, contributors and ODMs have the ability to influence the direction of Android's evolution. Openness also benefits Android through community-generated value. Read More

Leaked video shows Qwerty, touchscreen RIM BlackBerry 10s
A newly leaked video shows off two coming BlackBerry 10 smartphones from RIM, while also describing an elaborate marketing campaign designed to help launch the devices in the first quarter of 2013. Read More

BlackBerry sales fell but RIM's loss narrowed in Q2
Shipments of its BlackBerry smartphones fell in the quarter ended Sept. 1 as Research In Motion posted its third straight loss. Read More

First look: Inside the iPhone 5
iFixit takes apart the iPhone 5 Read More

Aruba eases WiFi access point set-up
Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks announced this week its expanded "controller-less" Wi-Fi network, along with an Internet-based service that automatically sets up enterprise access points. Read More


WEBCAST: Teradata

Big Data Done Right
In this live, interactive Webcast you will learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now.

Cisco acquires Wi-Fi-based location company
Cisco this week said it acquired ThinkSmart Technologies of Cork, Ireland, a software company that delivers location data analysis based on Wi-Fi networks. Read More

Apple CEO apologizes for Maps, pledges improvements
Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted today that the company's controversial new Maps application on iOS "fell short" of Apple's commitment to the "best experience possible" for users. Read More

An iPad stand, a WiFi access point, and a honeypot
I've checked out many iPad stands over the last few months and I just found what I think is one of the very best: The Uprise 360 produced by Hub Innovations. This is a dead simple design which your iPad (version 2 or 3) snaps into and you can rotate it to portrait or landscape as required. It's easy to remove the iPad when you need to and that's it ... as I said, it's dead simple and does the job. For $39.95 the Uprise 360 produced by Hub Innovations Uprise 360 gets a Gearhead rating of 5 out of 5. Read More

The top 17 smartphones from the major carriers
From Android to iOS to Windows Phone, these devices from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon offer users a range of options Read More

Three quick hits, misses for the iPhone 5
It should surprise exactly no one to learn that the iPhone 5 has been widely proclaimed to be the best smartphone in the world, and that it sold a mind-boggling 5 million units within days of hitting the market. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

For the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure
Aruba positioned in the Leaders quadrant, in Gartner's new Magic Quadrant report. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant demonstrates completeness of vision and the ability to execute. "Enterprises must choose infrastructure vendors that support network services, including security & management, and can integrate wired and wireless networking products." Learn more.

Android apps coming to an AMD-powered PC near you
A new partnership between virtual Android specialist BlueStacks and microchip maker AMD will see much of the Google Play store's stock of apps made available to Windows users running AMD hardware, the company announced Thursday. Read More

Free iPhone data usage tracker released by Princeton lab
Princeton University's EDGE Lab has released a free iPhone app that enables smartphone users to avoid big wireless bills by better tracking their actual data usage and predicting future usage. Read More

Touchscreen LTE-ready mobile hotspot to be offered by AT&T
AT&T will exclusively offer the first touchscreen-enabled mobile hotspot, the new MiFi Liberate, for use with its emerging LTE network, the carrier announced Thursday. Read More

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12 career tips from tech CEOs
It's a long way from mowing lawns and washing windows to the CEO's office, but today's tech chiefs haven't forgotten where they started in the working world. Here's their advice for young employees just getting started in the working world. Read More

10 Must-See Accessories for Your New Tablet
Whether you plan to buy the rumored Apple iPad Mini, a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, the Google Nexus 7 or another top-of-the-line tablet, these 10 accessories will most certainly improve your experience. Read More



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15 more useful Cisco sites
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Want to telework? Not so fast, IT

2011 DEMOgods enjoy a heavenly year | Trying to fill 6,000 jobs, Microsoft pitches $10,000 H-1B visa

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Want to telework? Not so fast, IT
IT pro spend their days figuring out how to support a mobile workforce that can operate wholly off-site, yet the telework perk remains elusive for them. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Anue Systems

Proactive, Cost-Effective Management of 4G LTE Networks
This industry iGR report examines how a network monitoring switch allows mobile carriers to manage 4G LTE networks efficiently and cost-effectively with network visibility and accurate analysis of monitoring tool data. Read Now.

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Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps
Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here

2011 DEMOgods enjoy a heavenly year
A lot can happen in a year, especially for young companies given the exposure of presenting at the bi-annual DEMO conference. With fall 2012 DEMO about to kick off, Network World caught up with some of last year's DEMO award winners. Read More

Trying to fill 6,000 jobs, Microsoft pitches $10,000 H-1B visa
With the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. This didn't mean that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for good. Read More

5 dysfunctional IT relationships -- and how to repair them
Sys admins are from Mars, developers are from Venus, and legal is from hell -- here's how to heal friction among IT factions. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems

Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media
Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more.

Cisco rival quietly downsizing too
Juniper has cut 500 employees, or just over 5% of its workforce, according to TechTarget. Most of the hits were to the company's QFabric data center switching personnel, the site reports. Read More

IT headcount expected to rise in Q4, CIOs say
Nine percent of CIOs plan to expand their IT departments in Q4, and 6% anticipate cutbacks. The net 3% increase in anticipated IT hiring is up two percentage points from Q3, according to Robert Half Technology. Read More

Oracle looks to take business from Amazon Web Services
Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, CEO Larry Ellison announced Sunday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Red Hat

Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Two Worlds
In this report we look at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data, on-premise with Scale-out NAS or in the Public Cloud. Learn More

How Cisco moved along to PaaS
Having on-demand virtual machines for employees is one thing, but that wasn't enough for networking giant Cisco, says Rodrigo Flores, an enterprise architect in the company's intelligent automation business unit. Read More

Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion
Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting more funding, according to industry watcher Ovum. Read More

iPhone 5 update fixes Verizon cellular data drain
Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Read More

Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters
Google patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company's most prolific bug finders. Read More

Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University's new lab
Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products' strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly-named lab director. Read More



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15 more useful Cisco sites
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JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES
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  2. As promised, Islamic hacktivists disrupt PNC Bank
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  5. Hottest Android news and rumors for the week ending Sept. 28
  6. .xxx to launch porn search engine
  7. Torvalds calls Romney 'a f***ing moron'
  8. Virtual reality gets real
  9. Free iPhone data usage tracker released by Princeton lab
  10. Three quick hits, misses for the iPhone 5

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Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls

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Tufin automates 'application connectivity management' for firewalls
Today's next-generation firewalls are "application aware" but they aren't aware of the connectivity needs among applications. It's common for a change in a firewall rule for one application to break the business process of another application because no one understood that the rule impacted more than one application. Tufin Software Technologies has a new tool that automates that process to maintain business continuity. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Endace Ltd.

Pssst! Your NOC Is Flying Blind
How long did it take you to get a permanent fix for your last network problem? If your answer is "Too long!" or "We never did get one!" your organization is leaking real money in network and business downtime. But you can stem the flow. View Now

WHITE PAPER: McAfee

6 Steps to Defend Business-Critical Social Media
80 percent of organizations with over 1,000 employees allow access to social media sites. Yet the stakes of reputation loss and data loss are very high-averaging USD $2M per incident. Dive into 6 Best Practice considerations for safe & productive social media use. Get this solution guide now. Learn more.

12 Common Project Management Mistakes--and How to Avoid Them
So many projects, so much mismanagement. That's the refrain of many IT executives. Indeed, even with project management software, IT projects often wind up taking longer (much longer) than planned and costing more than budgeted. Read More

How to find happiness in a world of password madness
In early August, Wired reporter Mat Honan had his most precious passwords hacked via a complex series of social engineering exploits. The breach made headlines because it exposed security flaws in Apple and Amazon customer service policies; but let's not forget that the Honan saga capped a long summer full of server invasions that exposed millions of user passwords en masse. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Splunk

Real-Time Insight for Big Data
Machine data holds critical operational insights into user behavior, security risks, capacity consumption and more. Learn how to leverage this unstructured data and correlate meaningful events all in real time. Learn More

Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion
Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting more funding, according to industry watcher Ovum. Read More

Banks can only hope for the best with DDoS attacks
As with Tuesday's attack on Wells Fargo, distributed denial of service attacks are said to be still crude but effective Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware

Cloud Control: Meet the Challenges Head-On
Looking for the "On" switch for your cloud computing deployment? Right. While Cloud Computing is the gateway to business flexibility and agility, there's no "On" switch. There's no "right" way. The benefits of cloud hold tremendous promise, and challenges abound. Learn More

7 common risk management mistakes
Executives know they face risks, but they often don't know which risks are real, or what that exposure means to their business. Read More

Inside Microsoft botnet takedowns
When Microsoft took extraordinary steps earlier this month to disrupt the Nitol botnet it was the fifth time its Digital Crimes Unit had taken action against such threats, each time expanding its technical and legal toolkit for making it harder and more expensive to run cybercrime enterprises. Read More

How to encrypt your cloud storage for free
If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. That may sound like a trite cliche, but the maxim rings true when it comes to securing files that you've stored online: A handful of recent incidents--including breaches of Dropbox and iCloud--underscores the fact that even with built-in encryption and SSL transfers, cloud storage providers can't perfectly ensure the sanctity of your data. Read More

 
 
 

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15 more useful Cisco sites
Another lineup in our continuing search for the most useful sites on the Web for Cisco users and practitioners.

JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES
As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. You might be surprised at which Web browser aced this security test
  2. As promised, Islamic hacktivists disrupt PNC Bank
  3. 12 common project management mistakes -- and how to avoid them
  4. Google eyeing development of $99 Nexus 7 tablet
  5. Hottest Android news and rumors for the week ending Sept. 28
  6. .xxx to launch porn search engine
  7. Torvalds calls Romney 'a f***ing moron'
  8. Virtual reality gets real
  9. Free iPhone data usage tracker released by Princeton lab
  10. Three quick hits, misses for the iPhone 5
 

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Apple's iOS 6 Maps mess in pictures

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Apple's iOS 6 Maps mess in pictures
Here's a look at some of the problematic 3D views of prominent locales you'll get in the Maps app in iOS 6. Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for the troublesome app on Friday and suggested that users try alternatives until Apple can improve it. Read More


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Leverage Unified Communications for Greater Productivity
Join CIO magazine, Computerworld, and Network World in a city near you for a dinner discussion on how organizations are successfully extending workforce communication and collaboration to mobile endpoints to drive greater productivity, faster results and especially employee satisfaction. Learn more at: http://events.cio.com/UCDinner

WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

What to Expect from 802.11ac
The new technologies that will make up the final IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard are extensions of the physical-layer wireless techniques pioneered in 802.11n. Learn more.

2011 DEMOgods enjoy a heavenly year
A lot can happen in a year, especially for young companies given the exposure of presenting at the bi-annual DEMO conference. With fall 2012 DEMO about to kick off, Network World caught up with some of last year's DEMO award winners. Read More

5 dysfunctional IT relationships -- and how to repair them
Sys admins are from Mars, developers are from Venus, and legal is from hell -- here's how to heal friction among IT factions Read More

Cisco rival quietly downsizing too
Juniper has cut 500 employees, or just over 5% of its workforce, according to TechTarget. Most of the hits were to the company's QFabric data center switching personnel, the site reports. Read More

Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University's new lab
Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products' strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly-named lab director. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

For the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure
Aruba positioned in the Leaders quadrant, in Gartner's new Magic Quadrant report. A vendor in the Leaders quadrant demonstrates completeness of vision and the ability to execute. "Enterprises must choose infrastructure vendors that support network services, including security & management, and can integrate wired and wireless networking products." Learn more.

Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs
As companies strive to regain the ground lost to the recession, CEOs are talking a lot about innovation. Some have decreed that a certain percentage of revenue must come from brand-new products and services each year. If CEOs want innovation, then CIOs ought to want patents. Not for internal IT operations inventions, but for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology. The innovation mandate, and the convergence of social media, mobile technology and analytics, has companies running to the patent office, trying to lock in ownership of new ways to do business and interact with customers. Read More

Interop New York 2012, and More on 802.11ac
I think I mentioned this before, but Interop New York (a/k/a Interop Fall) is next week, and once again I have the privilege of serving as the Track Chair for Wireless and Mobility. We have, as you can see, an exceptional program, and I hope you'll be attending. This event overall is a little smaller than Las Vegas/Spring, but the Wireless and Mobility track is just as large and just as comprehensive... Read More

Think tank's website rejects browser do-not-track requests
The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the U.S. government. Read More

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6 IT Hiring Tips to Weed Out the Duds
One bad apple can ruin a good team, which is why Nathan Brown sometimes prioritizes personality over skill set when making a hire. Here are six other rules he follows when filling an open position. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware

Nothing nebulous about cloud computing benefits
Data center virtualization and consolidation clear the path toward private, public and hybrid cloud computing environments. Whether enterprises take a revolutionary or evolutionary approach, understanding IT infrastructure options is the first step. Learn More

Oracle looks to take business from Amazon Web Services
Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, CEO Larry Ellison announced Sunday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Read More

FCC moves forward on incentive spectrum auctions
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took the first step Friday toward groundbreaking auctions of television spectrum to mobile carriers faced with skyrocketing bandwidth demands from their customers. Read More

15 more useful Cisco sites
Another lineup in our continuing search for the most useful sites on the Web for Cisco users and practitioners. Read More

iPhone 5 update fixes Verizon cellular data drain
Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Read More

BT upgrades its UC portfolio
BT has announced a major update to BT One, its unified communications portfolio, with new cloud-based services designed to improve collaboration within and between large organizations. The latest round of changes is designed to address a BT survey that polled 1,000 executives around the globe. Read More

DARPA robotic mule heads to battle
DARPA robotic mule heads to battle The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, has begun a two-year long experiment with the robot designed to lighten the load that soldiers carry. From: networkworld Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 01:55 More in Science & Technology Read More

 
 
 

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15 more useful Cisco sites
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MOST-READ STORIES

  1. You might be surprised at which Web browser aced this security test
  2. As promised, Islamic hacktivists disrupt PNC Bank
  3. 12 common project management mistakes -- and how to avoid them
  4. Google eyeing development of $99 Nexus 7 tablet
  5. Hottest Android news and rumors for the week ending Sept. 28
  6. .xxx to launch porn search engine
  7. Torvalds calls Romney 'a f***ing moron'
  8. Virtual reality gets real
  9. Free iPhone data usage tracker released by Princeton lab
  10. Three quick hits, misses for the iPhone 5
 

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